so where does he expect you to practice your hand-flying skills so that you'll know what to do when the sh!t hits the fan at dark o'clock way out over the drink
The very question that has been asked by many and remains unanswered to this day,
Taildragger.
Back in the days when we were allowded to hand fly, I very quickly discovered an almost foolproof truth - that those who practised hand flying rarely needed to, while those who didn't really should have.
I'll leave it to your imagination to work out why that was (is!!!!) so.
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